Ciao Ciao Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025
Ciao Ciao Milano! We’re back from April 8 to 13. With the northern spring in the air, Milano welcomes us back for another design-filled week of activity, entertainment and new experiences.
This year join Suzette Jackson and Erna Walsh as we take you to the Milan Design Fair – Salone del Mobile.Milano and Milan Design Week – Fuorisalone “Mondi Connessi” – Connected Worlds. Here we will explore leading furniture and lighting design at this year’s Salone del Mobile.Milano and design thinking, exhibits, collaborations and installations across Milan Design Week and the Fair.
Covering three main districts and with more than 290 events there is much to see and do in Milano this April. The Salone del Mobile.Milano Design Kiosk will be in located in Piazza della Scala, central Milan offering a meeting point for a series of presentations including books, independent magazines and design objects.
SALONE DEL MOBILE.MILANO – Milano Design Fair
The Salone del Mobile.Milano, held at Rho Fiera Milano, features innovative furniture and lighting design, designers and installations, exhibited across a series of large-scale pavilions designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
The Salone Internazionale del Mobile pavilion features prototypes and innovations in furniture design, while the Workplace 3.0 pavilion showcases ideas for now and into the future. The Salone Satellite will highlight the work of early career designers under 35.
Launching this year the Euroluce International Lighting Exhibition will showcase innovative lighting design, with Oblure and IfoElectric brands showcasing lighting products. The Euroluce International Lighting Forum hosts numerous talks with guest speakers: Robert Wilson, DRIFT, A.J. Weissbard, Marjan van Aubel and Kaoru Mendeat.
With much to see across multiple pavilions at Rho Fiera here is an outline of our key products and brands to see alongside our pick of speaking events to catch.
Lammhults will be showcasing the multi-award-winning Bau modular seating, contemporary Cinema Easy Chair celebrating 30 years, and the Archal table and Archal chair, with a frame crafted from recycled aluminium. With Abstracta collocated with Lammhults in Pavillion 18, you can discover the latest acoustic innovations for modern workplaces and public spaces from Abstracta. Also in Pavillion 18 you can catch the latest furniture innovations by Montbel and Ecobirdy.
Segis will be showcasing the brand new Sloop seating collection with dynamic character and generous personality in Pavilion 14.
Seeking the latest in designer quality and beautiful timber products, then head to Pavillion 22 for Nikari and Karl Anderson + Sonner, and Zanat.
Pavillion 6 | IfoElectric, B22, Oblure AB, B30
Pavillion 14 | Segis, E32,
Pavillion 18 | Ecobirdy A01 B02, Abstracta C04, Lammhults C04, Montbel C16
Pavilion 22 | ZANAT A11, Karl Andersson + Sonner A34, Nikari B16
Don’t miss…
Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino has designed an installation for the 2025 edition of the Salone, at the entrance to Pavilions 22-24, dedicated to a universal feeling: waiting, a journey, stunning and mesmerising. Entitled La dolce attesa, the project-installation for the 2025 Salone is a timeless space, an invisible bridge between present and future, where desire is intertwined with the fear of meeting one’s destiny. True to Sorrentino's visionary approach, La dolce attesa, set up can be seen as a metaphor for living, in which everything is suspended yet, paradoxically, everything happens.
Design Kiosk, Milan
FUORISALONE – Milano Design Week
Milan Design Week is located across two main districts with numerous satellite events around Milano. The Brera Design district in central Milano is home to design studios and showrooms. This district will host key design activities and events across multiple historic buildings in the city. While in the Porta Genova district you can find Superstudio and Base Milano collocated with a range of exciting activations, installations and events.
This year’s design week theme is Connected Worlds – encouraging reflections on how design plays a pivotal role in linking various dimensions of our lives from natural environment to advanced technologies, and cultural traditions to future innovations. This is an invitation to express creativity and ingenuity while fostering a sense of unity and global cooperation, and with over 290 activities and events there is something for everyone.
The following Milano Design Week events are some of our personal favourites we will be heading to in Milano.
DESIGN AS A POSITIVE FORCE FOR CHANGE – House of Switzerland Milano
This is for you, me and our global community and needed now.
Serving as an accelerator for collaboration, the House of Switzerland Milano is a collective exhibition by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and Presence Switzerland. Presenting work from independent designers, studios, universities, brands and galleries, it showcases the breadth of Swiss design and how collaboration has been a cornerstone in the nation’s development.
Located at the Casa degli Artisti in the Brera Design District, central Milano
UNFOLD 2025 – RETHINKING DESIGN IMPACT
Domus Academy returns to Milan Design Week 2025 with UNFOLD – Rethinking Designs Impact. The exhibition-event will present innovative projects that push the boundaries of design, fashion, and technology, from garments made with living materials to interactive installations on autonomy
Located at Base Milano, Via Bergognone 34, Milano
THE SCALE OF COMMITMENT – SUPERSTUDIO – Sup
Materially presents The Scale of Commitment, an exhibition dedicated to tangible commitment in the research and development of innovative, high-performance, and sustainable materials. Materially offers an exclusive overview of materials and companies that stand out for their concrete and strategic commitment considering the recent EU regulations on greenwashing and ecodesign.
Located at Superstudio Più, Via Tortona 27, Milano
WE WILL DESIGN: MAKING KIN
BASE Milano, ‘We Will Design’ is dedicated to emerging design talents, featuring speculative installations, collaborative practices and projects by designers, performers, schools, universities, and international institutions will offer an innovative perspective on the theme Making Kin.
Inspired by Donna Haraway’s philosophy, this concept explores new forms of kinship beyond speciesist and anthropocentric boundaries.
Located at Base Milano Via Bergognone 34, Milano
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